Current Events > What is the general feeling of Mortal Kombat XL?

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I got it for cheap when it was on sale last week, and am finding the story to just be brutal. Not specifically in content because I'm not really paying attention, but just in like why are there five minute cut scenes leading up to a fight, then another five minute cut scene? It's fucking Mortal Kombat I just want to play, not watch a shitty animated cut scene movie.

How is the reception for this game generally?
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The gameplay is better than 9's, which was already one of the better MK's for gameplay. I'm sad that they brought back Cyber Sub-Zero and then nerfed him. Also I take it you haven't played or seen the MK9 story mode? It was pretty good imo.
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MJOLNRVII posted...

The gameplay is better than 9's, which was already one of the better MK's for gameplay. I'm sad that they brought back Cyber Sub-Zero and then nerfed him. Also I take it you haven't played or seen the MK9 story mode? It was pretty good imo.

Nope.. I think the last one I played was on PS3 with Freddy, but I don't think I played the story in that one.
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MJOLNRVII posted...

The gameplay is better than 9's, which was already one of the better MK's for gameplay. I'm sad that they brought back Cyber Sub-Zero and then nerfed him. Also I take it you haven't played or seen the MK9 story mode? It was pretty good imo.

Mostly this.

I am just annoyed the facial damage and pit fatalities are gone

I bought it on sale a couple days ago as well. There's this whole deal where to unlock 4-5 of the costumes, you need to grind in the mobile game. They've since fixed that thankfully.

If you sync your wb play account on the mobile game and your console game, you automatically get all of those costumes. No need to waste your time playing the mobile game.
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BlazinBlue88 posted...

I bought it on sale a couple days ago as well. There's this whole deal where to unlock 4-5 of the costumes, you need to grind in the mobile game. They've since fixed that thankfully.

If you sync your wb play account on the mobile game and your console game, you automatically get all of those costumes. No need to waste your time playing the mobile game.

Interesting, who's costumes are they?
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AlCalavicci posted...

Nope.. I think the last one I played was on PS3 with Freddy, but I don't think I played the story in that one.

That would be the one. This post also reminded me of the fact that Freddy and Jason were one MK game apart. At least we got Alien Vs. Predator in this one.
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MJOLNRVII posted...

AlCalavicci posted...

Nope.. I think the last one I played was on PS3 with Freddy, but I don't think I played the story in that one.

That would be the one. This post also reminded me of the fact that Freddy and Jason were one MK game apart. At least we got Alien Vs. Predator in this one.

Yeah it's too bad Freddy wasn't in this one too
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AlCalavicci posted...

I got it for cheap when it was on sale last week, and am finding the story to just be brutal. Not specifically in content because I'm not really paying attention, but just in like why are there five minute cut scenes leading up to a fight, then another five minute cut scene? It's fucking Mortal Kombat I just want to play, not watch a shitty animated cut scene movie.

Then don't play the Story Mode? It's designed to be movie-like with single battles scattered between cutscenes. I think it works fine (I just think the story in MKX was fairly weak compared to MK9).

You can just do the standard ladder mode to fight a bunch of opponents with an arcade ending.
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AlCalavicci posted...

BlazinBlue88 posted...

I bought it on sale a couple days ago as well. There's this whole deal where to unlock 4-5 of the costumes, you need to grind in the mobile game. They've since fixed that thankfully.

If you sync your wb play account on the mobile game and your console game, you automatically get all of those costumes. No need to waste your time playing the mobile game.

Interesting, who's costumes are they?

Melina, Kitana, Jax, Raiden, Johnny Cage. I think another one.
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AlCalavicci posted...

I got it for cheap when it was on sale last week, and am finding the story to just be brutal. Not specifically in content because I'm not really paying attention, but just in like why are there five minute cut scenes leading up to a fight, then another five minute cut scene? It's fucking Mortal Kombat I just want to play, not watch a shitty animated cut scene movie.

How is the reception for this game generally?

- Plays the story mode
- Complains there's story in it

Lol. You make no sense guy
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It's pretty positive. I prefer 9 though, the story was a lot more fun and I just don't like Next Generation stories as a whole.
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They literally have a Mortal Kombat 40?
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Story-wise, i did enjoy it as much as the previous game, but i thought of all the storylines they introduced, they ended up putting all their chips behind the least interesting one.
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Hawaiian_punch posted...

MJOLNRVII posted...

The gameplay is better than 9's, which was already one of the better MK's for gameplay. I'm sad that they brought back Cyber Sub-Zero and then nerfed him. Also I take it you haven't played or seen the MK9 story mode? It was pretty good imo.

Mostly this.

I am just annoyed the facial damage and pit fatalities are gone

There are pit fatalities in X.
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jumi posted...

Hawaiian_punch posted...

MJOLNRVII posted...

The gameplay is better than 9's, which was already one of the better MK's for gameplay. I'm sad that they brought back Cyber Sub-Zero and then nerfed him. Also I take it you haven't played or seen the MK9 story mode? It was pretty good imo.

Mostly this.

I am just annoyed the facial damage and pit fatalities are gone

There are pit fatalities in X.

To be fair there were no stage fatalities in the original vanilla game, they got added later on. And even then they only added three (one of which was just The Pit again). Mortal Kombat (2011) had at least six stage fatalities not including Kratos' on the PS3 version.
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I like it. Only complaint is the roster, 9s was perfect.
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